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After de-creation, something new must take shape. This sermon turns to obedience not as rule-following, but as a lived response to grace. In the Gravity and Grace series, obedience emerges after the self has been loosened from control and illusion. It is not forced compliance, but a form of listening that becomes action. A way of living that reflects trust rather than certainty. Obedience asks us to move without fully knowing, to respond without securing the outcome, and to follow where grace leads rather than where control feels safest. This is not about perfection. It is about posture. Learning to live in response to something greater than ourselves.
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After naming gravity, affliction, and attention, this sermon explores what happens when the self begins to loosen its grip on the world it has constructed. Drawing on Simone Weil’s theology, de-creation is not destruction for its own sake, it is the undoing of illusion, control, and self-centered narratives that keep us from reality. We spend much of our lives building a world that makes sense to us, one where we are at the center and everything confirms what we already believe. But grace does not reinforce that world. It dismantles it. De-creation is the slow, often painful process of releasing our need to control, explain, and secure ourselves. It is what makes room for truth, for others, and ultimately for God. Before we can be remade, something in us must be unmade.